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Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor


On hosting images without the price tag.

Harbor provided us with a more expandable and rich feature set right out of the box, and required minimal extra tooling to make it robust and scalable. We explored an elaborate HA per datacenter with colocated instances of those services, but decided to wait for the first results of the all-in-one stand-alone deployment before making it more complicated than it has to be. We’ve been dependent on external registries keeping our app images for years, but the simplicity and benefits of our current setup give little reason to doubt that cutting the cord was the right decision: better performance at less cost with minimal infrastructure.

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